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This unfortunately isn't surprising anymore: 1. State and local governments wanted order above all 2. They created laws and regulations that gave too much leeway to police with little oversight 3. Cops think they can act with impunity.

In this moment of reckoning, I wonder if the US will be able to undo some of these terrible policies

Relevant References: https://www.joincampaignzero.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km4uCOAzrbM

Mmm citation needed here.

Without getting into what's right or fair, the reality is that it supply & demand that defines price setting behavior (in this instance, the company is optimizing for its consumer surplus)

Maybe another way to think about it is when some innovation drove the price of a car down by 10% (because production costs are lower, the car maker makes the same profit). Would you say "Hey I was happy paying the car full price for the value it provided me, so let me pay its old, full price, I'd be happy to do that"?

Maybe there is a way to publicly shame them, even if only a low fraction of users forwards bad actors to a collaborative list

This is precisely what Mortimer Adler suggests in his book "How to Read a Book", to read above your current levels this is only how you grow your mind.

Strong advice but I feel it's much harder nowadays to go down that route when there are distractions like YouTube videos that are easy to watch and make you feel you're learning when really it's scratching a superficial curiosity itch with no depth.

That said, to answer OP's question, I got Mortimer's book called "Great Treasury of Western Thought" that has compiled quotes from Western classics into key themes (the human condition, love, religions, etc), and it provided the missing link between getting meaty samples of key concepts, versus actually reading ALL the classics (the book started as the the index or 'syntopicon' of the 'Great Books of the Western World', a full compilation of Western works)

> Then Z>Y>X, so Z+Y>2X. Any household that makes more than twice a "fair wage" is not lower middle class (many lower middle class people don't even make 1x a fair wage).

That's terrible math that proves nothing, besides that the owners as a couple is making more (including by a tiny margin) than a couple of workers

How did you come up with that probability? Seems gratuitous

This is very cool. If you can mass produce such boards (plastic molds maybe?), It could be a fun novelty gadget/gift

As a side note: O(k n log(n)) and O (n log (n)) have exactly the same meaning for k non-null constant by the definition of big O notation. The more you know!

Mindsight by Dan Siegel is one I would recommend too

An interesting exercise is to have a sample of readers summarizing a self-help book in 4 pages or less, and see how these pearls of wisdom overlap.

My hypothesis is that people would highlight different things, based on their own present level of wisdom so to speak.

Put it in a different way, the challenge with books as the medium for self-help is that it doesn't adapt to the varying levels of wisdom if its audience.

Depending on your email volumes, mailgun could be a viable alternative

Currency here isn't money though, but reputation (for the researcher and their institutions) and advance of science.

One can imagine a world where high-quality reviewing entities exist and attract top researchers without being profit-driven publishers.

> The real power-up isn't keeping it all, it's being able to change and grow, with just enough focus on the past to make good choices.

Love how you framed it!